Under the Chokecherry Tree Photograph by Janette Boyd

Under the Chokecherry Tree

by Janette Boyd

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Title

Under the Chokecherry Tree

Artist

Janette Boyd

Medium

Photograph - Photo/digitial

Description

Original photo of a chokecherry tree with fruit taken near Tonkawa, a town in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Salt Fork Arkansas River.
Additional textures added to image and digitally worked with brushes using Corel PaintShop. Texture provided by FAA Artist, Pamela Phelps.
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Featured in the following FAA Groups:
*The World We See
*Images That Excite
*Glimpses of Autumn
*Out of the Ordinary
*ALL Fine Art American Artwork
*Enhanced Original
*Glimpses of Autumn
*Photography Beauty of the USA
*Weekly Fun for All

Thank you to all the FAA Group Administrators for featuring this artwork.

This is a shrub or small tree that grows from 20 to 30 feet. The bark is reddish-brown or gray. The alternate leaves are deciduous,oblong to oval to 3" long, finely toothed, acute at the tip and downy beneath; there are generally 1-2 small glands at the base of the leaf blade. The flowers are fragrant,small white blooming in May, in clusters near the ends of limbs, much like the blooms on most fruit trees.

Pea-sized fruit is a dark red turning nearly black when ripe, in the fall, and containing usually only 1-seed. The fruit is edible but bitter-tasting and the pits are poisonous. The fruit is used to make jellies and jams.

The Chokecherry is very popular with the Native American tribes. The pulp and kernels of the fruit were ground together and made into patties or balls. This ground product could also be combined with buffalo meat and fat to make pemmican. The fruits were also dried. The Prussic acid in chokecherry pits is neutralized by boiling or drying. The bark can be used as a tea. Native American tribes made use of both the bark and fruits. Chokecherry juice was used to treat sore throat and diarrhea. Tea made from the bark was used as a cold remedy. Tea made from chokecherry roots was used as a sedative and stomach remedy. The bark has been used as a flavoring for cough syrups.

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